Wow!

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

I heard that they had significant ice storms in Texas that brought down power transmission lines. There was one account that South Texas was getting electric power from Mexico till the lines were fixed. Oppie

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We lost phone service in Austin, on Wednesday, and had to patch into
the Mexican phone company, Taco Bell, for a while.

Sno-o-o-ort ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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So the power is off for an hour or two after lunch?

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Hell is freezing over! Time to collect on all those loans to relatives. And approach that hot looking babe at the gym.

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Yeah, the whole rolling blackouts and power from Mexico thing is becoming a scandal because there were a large, currently unexplained, number of generating plants down state wide.

Some were understandable as 'winter', no matter how cold, is not peak demand (summer is) so plant maintenance is often scheduled during this period. Although, one could imagine warnings of unusual weather conditions might alter that otherwise 'normal' schedule. 12,000 mw was down due to scheduled maintenance.

50 out of Texas? 550 power plants, totaling 8,000mw went down allegedly due to 'weather' but sources only 'explain' 2 coal fired plants supposedly 'causing' the problem by going down due to burst pipes with the gas fired plants that should have come up to cover the loss failing to start. That leaved 46 plant failures unexplained.

From what I gather many of the failures were due to instrumentation freezing up and you can't operate if the control system is compromised (instrumentation failure may be the 'actual' cause of the above mentioned coal plant downing rather than the oft reported 'burst pipes'). Second, some gas fired plants suffered from low supply pressure because while winter does not peak electricity usage in Texas it does natural gas as most homes are gas heated.

In addition, our 'nation leading' wind power 'green energy' system doesn't work real damn well in the cold with little to no wind and our typically rare 'blue norther' usually begins with a windy front followed by cold stagnation.

Believe it or not but Houston, sprawling across the refinery capital of the world Pasadena, gets 34% of it's electrical power from wind and Dallas gets 40%.

It's not just power either as everyone seems to have been caught off guard or their 'plans' foiled due to circumstances with rain and freezing rain preceding the 'cold spell' thwarting 'preparations'. As of 11:00AM Houston traffic reports stated the I-45 primary downtown corridor was completely stalled and the cars stuck there had been since 5:00AM. I hope the guys in electrics had charged up enough juice to run their heaters for 6 hours.

I've heard the Romans and Arabs used to make ice by exposing water to the desert sky at night, covering it in the day. After a few days' cycling it had radiated enough heat into the clear desert sky to freeze. Doesn't work in areas where there are clouds at night.

I sure wish the guys up in New York would send some of their 'global warming' down Texas way because it's colder here than it is up there.

That joke has no meat to it. ;-)

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LOL

Hey, better be nice to Mexico, and Canada too, because after Obama and his companion progressive/socialist loons in Congress get finished decimating every economically viable energy source in this country we'll be begging them both for power.

We may have a better chance with Mexico since 2/3's of their population will be up here by then and we can appeal on the grounds of servicing their own nationals.

flipper wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Hmm....wonder how many of South Carolina's control rods are above 50% out?

Only a hurricane puts us in the dark...... Idiots still don't get the idea of burying the wires.

Earth gives off heat at night. Clouds reflect the heat back so it will not cool down as fast. Clear skies allow the earth to radiate its heat more readily.

Desert nights can get exceedingly cold with their cloudless skies. (this according to an Egyptian friend and neighbor).

We'll need a lot more grease racks to service them. I hope we have enough spare parts! ;-)

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That's impossible. As soon as you get close, they flash their firmware and you have to start all over.

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"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

I was out last nite and seen a sheen on the snow in front of the house. Rain saturated snow, now frozen. Stepped on top and walked around on 3' of snow. The last winter that was like this was many moons ago.

Cheers

So why is the Church of Warmingism so obssessed with CO2? Are they afraid they won't be able to tax clouds?

Well, it's just been corroborated by someone who lives in the LA area - it's actually desert, it's just heavily irrigated.

Cheers! Rich

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Not even remotely possible.

80% of Mexico's population has already colonized South Florida. I think the other 20% went to Arizona.

And supposedly, another 60% are newborns gaming our immigration loopholes.

Sorry.... spent the day in Miami. (Will the last American to leave please bring back our flag?)

In 1969/1970 (or so), I was stationed at Shaw AFB, SC, near Sumter, which the locals call "Scumter," about 50 mi. east of Columbia. We got TWO INCHES of snow, and the whole state was virtually paralyzed. The other guys in the shop mentioned all the cars in the ditch. Evidently, SCians dosn't have much experience driving in snow.

I grew up in Minnesota, and I've had a front-wheel drive car; I laugh at

6" of snow[1], unless, of course, it's on top of an inch of black ice, and the road slopes downhill. =:-O

Cheers! Rich

[1] Shoveling out from under 2' of snow, however, is no laughing matter.

All sloping roads in Minnesota are downhill.